Re: a standard for diagram document format

2008-06-11 Thread Alex Mandel
I don't know where the documentation is, but simply in tinkering with dia files you'll see that it is indeed a compressed xml file. In the save dialog if you uncheck the compress option you'll get an html file out of it. Alex Diego Jacobi wrote: Where is the info describing the dia format? I

Re: a standard for diagram document format

2008-06-11 Thread Diego Jacobi
Where is the info describing the dia format? It is the same as a shape? It would be nice, the shape being the same thing as a diagram. Cheers. 2008/6/11 Maciej Jaros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 2008-06-11 at 21:40 Lars Clausen wrote: > > On Jun 11, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Maciej Jaros wrote: > > > >

Re: a standard for diagram document format

2008-06-11 Thread Maciej Jaros
On 2008-06-11 at 21:40 Lars Clausen wrote: > On Jun 11, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Maciej Jaros wrote: > > > On 2008-06-11 18:13 José María Martínez wrote: > >> I agree, but does anybody knows if exists any std format for > >> diagrams? > > I believe that if you would try to define a standard for diagrams

Re: some quetsions about features and plugins

2008-06-11 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 11.06.2008 13:46, Marleine Daoud schrieb: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Hans Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As already mentioned I'm not sure I have understood the "filtering ..." idea. Didn't it mean selecting objects based on certain criteria, rather than selecting attributes o

Re: a standard for diagram document format

2008-06-11 Thread Diego Jacobi
I am not sure if an standard of it could be made in the strict sense of the word. Diagrams are used for too many kind of representations in many different ways. And example could be an electronic circuit analysis in blocks vs a genealogical tree. (The last having a std. format) Both are too much

Re: a standard for diagram document format

2008-06-11 Thread Michael Ross
I don't think Dia exists to end the dominance of Visio. I think Dia exists for people who have the interest in working on an open source diagramming tool to do so. It gives them the ability to make a diagramming tool that works the way they want it to. Visio provides no effective mechanism for a

Re: some quetsions about features and plugins

2008-06-11 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jun 11, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote: Another use would be to really filter objects from a selection. If I am only interested in the arrows in some region of the diagram, I could just select all objects in that region, and then filter out all objects that are not arrows. The

Re: a standard for diagram document format

2008-06-11 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jun 11, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Maciej Jaros wrote: Dnia 2008-06-11 18:13 osoba przedstawiająca się jako José María Martínez napisała: I agree, but does anybody knows if exists any std format for diagrams? I believe that if you would try to define a standard for diagrams that wouldn't be too

Re: a standard for diagram document format

2008-06-11 Thread Maciej Jaros
Dnia 2008-06-11 18:13 osoba przedstawiająca się jako José María Martínez napisała: I agree, but does anybody knows if exists any std format for diagrams? I believe that if you would try to define a standard for diagrams that wouldn't be too complex and would have enough functionality to build an

Re: some quetsions about features and plugins

2008-06-11 Thread Sameer Sahasrabuddhe
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:38 AM, Hans Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> \me delurks. >> > Welcome back ;) One certainly hopes so. But my current academic situation keeps me from putting non-trivial amounts of time into things other than work, so keeping a low profile. But this feature, or at l

Re: a standard for diagram document format

2008-06-11 Thread José María Martínez
I agree, but does anybody knows if exists any std format for diagrams? En/na Andrew Marlow ha escrit: I am really pleased that at last we have ODF for officially defining an open format for documents. But I think we are still missing the equivalent for diagrams. I realise that dia produces out

a standard for diagram document format

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Marlow
I am really pleased that at last we have ODF for officially defining an open format for documents. But I think we are still missing the equivalent for diagrams. I realise that dia produces output in a number of formats but none of these are any kind of standard for diagrams that I am aware of. If

Re: some quetsions about features and plugins

2008-06-11 Thread Marleine Daoud
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Hans Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> As already mentioned I'm not sure I have understood the "filtering ..." > idea. Didn't it mean selecting objects based on certain criteria, rather > than selecting attributes of a group of objects? > It did mean sele